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Nicholas Potter

I am a PhD Candidate on the job market in 2020. My research interests include the economics of water in a changing climate, water rights and policy in frontier situations, and conflict under scarcity. I am a certified Software and Data Carpentry instructor and enjoy teaching skills for open and reproducible science.

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Last updated on 2019-07-03.

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Nicholas Potter

Water and Conflict Economics, Spatial and Bayesian Statistics

Education

Washington State University

Ph.D. in Economics

Washington

2020 (expected)

  • Dissertation: Essays in Water Economics
  • Committe: Michael Brady (Chair), Jonathan Yoder, Joseph Cook

University of Massachusetts – Amherst

M.S. in Applied Mathematics

Massachusetts

2005

Hampshire College

B.A. in Economics

Massachusetts

2002

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Technology for Trade (USDA Grant #), Conservation Program Participation (USDA-NIFA), Center for Sustatining Agriculture and Natural Resources

Washington State University

2016-present

Research Associate

Measure 2 Manage

Washington State University

2012-2015

Research Assistant

Moving to Opportunity

National Bureau of Economic Research

2011-2012

Business Development Volunteer

United States Peace Corps

Guinea and Niger

2008-2011

Research Scientist

Bureau of Business and Economic Research

University of New Mexico

2006-2008

Selected Publications and Conference Papers

Using Climate Analogues to Obtain a Causal Estimate of the Impact of Climate on Agricultural Productivity

Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Washington, D.C.

2018

Potter, Nicholas, Michael Brady, and Kirti Rajagopalan

Selected Software

rnassqs: Access the USDA-NASS Quick Stats API

CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnassqs.

N/A

2019

Potter, Nicholas

vcovConley: Conley spatially adjusted variances

Github: https://github.com/potterzot/vcovConley

N/A

2019

Potter, Nicholas

get_doi.py: Use a DOI to create a bibtex reference

Github: https://github.com/potterzot/get_doi

N/A

2019

Potter, Nicholas

ghgvcr: Greenhouse Gas Value Calculator for R

Github: https://github.com/ebimodeling/ghgvcR

N/A

2018

Schauer, Chris, Krista Anderson-Teixeira, David LeBauer, and Nicholas A Potter

Selected Workshops and Talks

On the Frontier of Water Rights: Beneficial Use and Relinquishment in the Wild West and Now

Annual Meeting of the Universities Council on Water Resources

Snowbird, Utah

June 2019

Git and R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis

Software Carpentry Workshop

Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME

April 2019

A bayesian model of crop choice using STAN

R Working Group

Washington State University

November 2018

Climate Impacts on Agricultural Productivity in the Fruitful Rim

9th Annual Northwest Climate Conference

Boise, Idaho

November 2018

Working with Data using dplyr and tidyr

Data Carpentry Workshop

Washington State University

October 2018

Can crop switching mitigate the effect of climate on agricultural productivity in the fruitful rim?

School of Economic Sciences Seminar

Washington State University

October 2018

Hierarchical regression modeling with STAN

R Working Group

Washington State University

February 2018

Causal bayesian estimates of minimum wage impacts

R Working Group

Washington University

March 2017

A matching approach to estimating the impact of climate on agricultural productivity

R Working Group

Washington State University

November 2017